He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

Let us dare to dream and shoot for the moon. Even if we don’t fetch the moon, a million stars may fill us with wonder. ("Happiness blowing in the wind")

I believe adopting free unstructured play, within an appropriate framework, has rich potential in bringing up happy, well-balanced and resilient children.

A world at war is crazy enough for anything to be believable.

In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.

You're not playing the game, " he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

Welcome to my garage. This is where I go to get away from the Honey-Do list.

If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.

As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.